Meghan McCain Yelled at a Meeting for ‘The View’ Over Wealth Gap: ‘All of You’ Need to Interact With ‘People Who Don’t Make $100,000 a Year’
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Meghan McCain said on the latest episode of her podcast “Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat” that she once yelled during a meeting for “The View” and called out the wealth gap in the room. McCain was a controversial co-host of the ABC daytime talk show for four seasons form 2017 to 2021. She didn’t name who she was yelling at, but presumably her co-hosts were in the room as she said it was during a meeting for the daily “View” segment “Hot Topics.”
“I had an experience while I was working at ABC News [on ‘The View’]. I was in a particularly heated Hot Topics meeting,” McCain shared (via Entertainment Weekly). “I remember yelling at the meeting that, ‘Some of you’ or ‘All of you are going to have to start interacting with people who don’t make $100,000 a year or more. You have to interact with someone who makes minimum wage on some level or another.'”
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McCain often butted heads with her “View” co-hosts during her tenure on the show. She continued by saying that her “experience working in much of corporate media” was defined by watching wealthy TV personalities “live in $20 million Upper West Side mansions or apartments and then they take their Teslas to the Hamptons or Sag Harbor on the weekend with their family and then they come back.”
“That is their life every day,” McCain said. “I think part of the rot in media is because they’re not talking to the working class. Is that part of the reason media is dying on the vine the way it is now?”
McCain rarely holds back when talking about experience on “The View.” She made headlines in December for railing against the backlash she still faces from her time on the show.
“The thing about ‘The View’ is that I didn’t know when I signed my contract with ABC that this is forever, that, for the rest of my life, I’m going to be bullied, yelled at, abused, and brought up for years,” McCain said. “I haven’t been on that show in years. I’m just trying to live my life.”
“I just didn’t know that when I signed to do this show that I have to deal with these crazy old people just yelling about me all of the time,” McCain continued at the time. “I go whole swaths of time without thinking about them — whole months without thinking about the show or anything. Apparently, I’m just on their minds every day. And it’s pathetic.”
Listen to the latest episode of “Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat” here.
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